Health

The much anticipated CBO scoring of the American Health Care Act, aka "Trumpcare" is out, and among the key highlights are that while the US federal budget would be reduced by $337 billion over the 2017-2026 period, it would also mean that 14 million more would be uninsured by 2018 under the Republican ObamaCare replacement bill, with the number rising to 24 million by 2026. Furthermore, it adds that "average premiums for single policyholders in the nongroup market would be 15% to 20% higher than under current law", i.e. prices would go up.

A few weeks ago we noted that none other than John Boehner, the former Republican Speaker of the House, scoffed at the idea of repealing and replacing Obamacare as he essentially predicted that Republicans would become their own worst enemy (see "Boehner: Full Repeal And Replace Of Obamacare 'Is Not Going To Happen'"):

“[Congressional Republicans are] going to fix Obamacare – I shouldn’t call it repeal-and-replace, because it’s not going to happen,” he said.

 

“I started laughing,” he said. “Republicans never ever agree on health care.”

Scientists in the United States have been given the go-ahead to legally resurrect 20 brain-dead patients using advanced stem cell technology.  Participants will have been certified dead and will kept alive via life support, whilst being monitored for several months. Biotech company Bioquark has been tasked with stimulating and regrowing neurons in order to bring the patients back from the dead.

Doctors in Canada have recorded the first ever scientific proof of life after death, claiming that people’s brains continue functioning after they are pronounced clinically dead.  Researchers from the University of Western Ontario had been monitoring the brain activity and heart beatings of four people who were in intensive care, after their life support machines were turned off. According to doctors in a Canadian intense care unit, one patient continued showing persistent brain activity for ten minutes after their heart had stopped.

Sometimes the truth is hard to hear, like "Trump wins" and "Obamacare is failing." It appears, as a pleasant change, Republican congressman Jason Chaffetz dropped an uncomfortable truth bomb on the American people this morning - so used to getting everything they want (as a right) and never having to 'pay' for it - when he told CNN's "New Day" this morning that: